Innovation
Networked buildings – more efficiency with MEMAP An eco-friendly energy supply with reduced energy costs: the “Multi-Energy Management and Aggregation Platform” (MEMAP) research project is investigating how these two positives can be combined. The project allows companies and research institutions to develop an open software platform, intelligently networking buildings and their energy generators. As a leading solution provider of building automation technology, SAUTER is also fully on board.
potentials and integrate renewable energies. The plan is to achieve this with a “Smart City” where a district’s buildings are internetworked and generate energy themselves.
Buildings within the European Union (EU) account for around 40% of energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions. The EU’s declared goal is to decarbonise the building sector by 2050. This energy turnaround can only succeed if buildings exploit efficiency
Continuous swapping of these roles is a major hurdle which the MEMAP project aims to overcome, using intelligent algorithms that coordinate energy flows.
This represents a special challenge. In conventional energy networks, a central generator supplies consumers and the hierarchy is clearly defined. In a decentralised energy network however, buildings may be both producers and consumers so their individual tasks constantly change.
Energy services API
MEMAP in a nutshell The MEMAP (Multi-Energy Management and Aggregation Platform) project focuses on the development and testing of an open aggregation platform with software interfaces that networks different buildings in a neighbourhood. The aim: to make synergy effects visible and economically usable in energyoptimised aggregation, to improve the efficiency of energy supply, and to save CO2.
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